Husayn Muhammed al-Umari

Husayn Muhammed al-Umari (1936-) was a leader of the PFLP-EO splintergroup, the 15 May Organization, who was responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 830 on 11 August 1982, which killed one person and wounded sixteen.

Biography
Husayn Muhammad al-Umari was born in 1936 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine to a Sunni Muslim Palestinian family, and he became the leader of the PFLP-linked 15 May Organization. al-Umari was a master bomb maker, and he decided to commit his skills to the struggle against Israel's occupation of Palestine; he was responsible for the 1982 Pan Am Flight 830 bombing over the Pacific Ocean and the 1985 bombings of the Marks and Spencer Department store in Paris and the Leumi Bank, both in France. His wife, two sons, and two daughters lived in Lebanon, and al-Umari lived in Ba'athist Iraq for several years. He was wanted by the State Department of the United States, and he was believed to have hidden in Lebanon or Iraq.